Vitamins, Minerals
& Weight Loss

Below is an excerpt from Part Two of

The 2004 Multi-Diet

by Anderson A. Anonymous, M.D., Ph.D.

Calculating Macrominerals in Protein Foods

You’ve probably already noticed that you are eating a substantial amount of protein foods on the Multi-Diet. These protein foods have considerable amounts of some of the macrominerals in them—and hardly any of some of the others. If your proper requirement of protein is contained in, for example, 12-16 ounces of beef, it is good to know about how much potassium, phosphorus, etc., you will also get from this—because it will make supplementing minerals much more accurate. (Note: You calculated your protein requirement in Table 16: Your Protein Food Requirement.)

To find out how much of each macromineral you get from the usual protein foods, use Table 22 and Table 23. Table 22 provides the reference data, and Table 23 is where you calculate the amounts that you need.

(Note: If you haven’t read more on… protein, you should do so now. The next few paragraphs could be mildly confusing otherwise.J)

To use Table 22 and Table 23:

 In column two of Table 23 below, write down the number of ounces of each protein food that you calculated for yourself back in Table 16.

1.  Multiply this number by the amount of each macromineral in one oz of that protein food. (You get this from Table 22.)
2.  Write the amounts of each macromineral you calculated in the appropriate column of Table 23 for future reference.
3. These results are the amounts of each mineral you will get from eating your proper amount of this particular protein food.

Since these protein foods will probably make up about one-half of the total food Calories you eat daily, this calculation is very important to helping you to know whether you are getting too much or too little of the RDI of each macromineral. I strongly encourage you to take the time to do this calculation.